The former broadcaster was a close observer of the street life around him in his native city

Madeline Cash is at her best when she really leans into the increasingly preposterous, Pynchonian rabbit holes of her plot

Misty L. Heggeness offers a rich economics history and veritable coterie of feminist heroes, drilling deep into the concept of care-privilege

Ireland’s presence throughout Catherine Morris’s book is persistent and unsettling

Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’

This book is unsettling when we have to remind ourselves that the protagonist is made up

This book may really be about the ways in which we rationalise our lives, fates, choices, when all is ‘too late’

For a book-length lecture, Davis was invited to speak about why she writes

Recent 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death saw the publication of numerous books about him

More important than any encomium from this quarter, Seán O’Casey’s daughter diligently captures his life and legacy

New books in translation from Russia, France, Switzerland, Norway and Finland

A worthy read accompanied by more than 100 evocative photographs along with paintings, cartoons and reproductions of historic documents

Stories that capture the zeitgeist, without being expressly ‘contemporary’

As close to flawless as possible, it’s one of those novels that renew your faith in the possibilities of the genre

A fascinating chronicle of rewilding in Meath; observing nature in Mayo; and using books to transform a town on the Welsh-English border

A slim, assiduously researched social and political history of the past 100 years in Gaza

McCurdy’s debut novel fails to offer much more than its deadpan, Bret-Easton-Ellis-adjacent comedy

A long history of flight and terror for a minority is linked to a new wave of anti-Semitism in the ‘dark age of Trump’

This project is personal for the author, the grandniece of Italian communist resistance fighters

Doyle is one of the most enduringly distinctive voices in contemporary Irish fiction